The Ambient Blog

For all of that really like ambient and melancholic piano, Matthew Davidson also know as Escape Philosophy, has recorded an album of piano improvisation: A Towering Achievement of Indescribable Beauty.

I’m not big fan of piano music, but this is really good stuff, specially the long piece called “Water against Stone” in the middle.

The album is available under a CC license,  you will find different downloads on Matthew’s blog, or you can go directly to the record page at Jamendo.

“As our sphere of understanding expands, so does the perimeter of darkness adjoining it.”

New album by Earnest Woodall, called “Sphere Acid Burn” was released last month, it is full of cinematic sounds, voices and ambient sequences, with a very dark mood in it.

You can download the album in various formats, as well as stream it (from Last.fm for example) and get it as a hard copy CD from CD Baby.

The “Cinema Fantastique” live performance from Altus on StillStream ambient radio is now available on his website, as well as all his live titles (Toward The Winter Solstice and The Grey Horizon).

For those who missed it, Isabliss the new Amethystium album is ready, it should be out in june.

You can read the anounce in the latest news of their website as well as listen to 2 track on their MySpace.

Webbed Hand records just released a very unique kind of compilation: “String Ambient“. In that record (well 2 in fact) you will find only songs done by using a string instrument, from guitar to dulcimer including harp …etc., making those 22 tracks and this compilation a little bit unique !

Give it a try it is downloadable as MP3 format from the record page.

Artist musician Joshua Cloudt just released a Ambient / lofi album called “These Melting Hours” under the name Cloaca Cadabra.

You can download the full record as high quality mp3.

Worth giving it a go, very mellow and a lot of good stuff, from very short and cinematic pieces to more elaborate and long tracks.

You can also find other and different songs on the artist MySpace page.

Just discovered this Italian artist, PiereCall (real name Gennaro Giugliano) from Napoli who is doing some really good ambient / Berlin school music with heavy influences from musicians like Klaus Schulze or Tangerine Dream.

Pierecall released a lot of songs for you to listen or download as his SoundClick page is listing more than 150 songs for example ! He also have a blog with some videos where you can see him performing some of his tunes.

Pierecall music blog.

Pierecall page on SoundClick, Pierecall on MySpace and Pierecall on iCompositions.

Ok, after this one we’ll change a little bit of subject, but to wish Klaus a better health soon and because I’m so disappointed the concert was canceled, here is one live video from 1997 :

The NTNS (Not That Normal Shit) radio show just put a download page up for download the best of music that was played during the first 3 month of 2008 of the show.

Available as mp3 under Creative Commons you can download and listen individual tracks as well the complete stuff. Distributed under the NNTS name for the best of the NTNS radio !

You have also an archive of tracks for 2007 available there.

Have fun !

Just discovered Soleil Vert from Canada this morning on the StillStream show. This very good ambient / electronica music and I’m listening to the albums since this morning with great pleasure.

What the artist says:

Soleil Vert makes dark ambient/illbient/industrial music. His main theme is the degradation of the environment.

Inspired by his love of nature and by the destruction of it by technology and mankind, Soleil Vert makes dark sounding beats and noises, contrasting with harmonic lines and ambient nature sounds. The name comes from the french translation for “Soylent Green”, one of the first commercial movie predicting a dark future.

You can find Soleil Vert on Last.fm, Soleil Vert on mySpace or by Soleil Vert Cd’s on Bluetracks.

Up to now they made 3 albums, all with french names: “Du déluge au désert“, “L’ère du pétrole” & “La source“.

This is really great music, really mixed and balanced between ambient sounds and more up-tempo things, really worth give it a try !